Chapter VI

... O little brown-eyed lamb, the wolfish world waits hungrily to devour such as thou!--O dainty sea-land flower, that pinkness of thine will not fade out more speedily than shall evaporate thy perfume of sweet illusions in the stagnant air of cities! Many tears will dim those dark eyes, nevertheless, ere thou shalt learn that wealth--even the wealth of nations--is accumulated, without sense of altruism, in eternal violation of those exquisite ethics which seem to thee of God's own teaching. When thou shalt have learned this, and other and sadder things, perhaps, memory may crown thee with her crown of sorrows--may bear thee back, back, in wonderful haze of blue and gold, to that island home of thine--even into that tiny office-room, with its smiling gray portrait of thy dead father's father. And fancy may often re-create for thee the welcome sound of hoofs returning home: "çouval--tacata, tacata, tacata."...

And dreaming of the funny little refrain, the stranger fancied he could look into the future of many years.... And in the public car of a city railroad, he saw a brown-eyed, sweet-faced woman, whom it seemed he had known a child, but now with a child of her own--asleep there in her arms--and so pale! It was sundown; and her face was turned to the west, where lingered splendid mockeries of summer seas--golden Pacifics speckled with archipelagoes of rose and fairy-green. But he knew in some mysterious way that she was thinking of seas not of mist,--of islands not of cloud, while the heavy vehicle rumbled on its dusty way, and the hoofs of the mule seemed to beat time to an old Creole refrain--Milet--tocoto, tocoto, tocoto.

[Footnote 1: _Item_, September 14, 1879.]

[Footnote 2: _Item_, September 24, 1879. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 3: _Item_, November 1, 1879. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 4: _Item_, November 2, 1879. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 5: _Item_, December 6, 1879. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 6: _Item_, April 17, 1880.]

[Footnote 7: _Item_, April 17, 1880.]

[Footnote 8: _Item_, June 18, 1880.]

[Footnote 9: _Item_, July 31, 1880.]

[Footnote 10: _Item_, July 24, 1880.]

[Footnote 11: _Item_, July 29, 1880.]

[Footnote 12: _Item_, August 13, 1880.]

[Footnote 13: _Item_, September 7, 1880.]

[Footnote 14: _Item_, September 18, 1880.]

[Footnote 15: _Item_, September 25, 1880.]

[Footnote 16: _Item_, October 9, 1880.]

[Footnote 17: _Item_ October 12, 1880.]

[Footnote 18: _Item_, October 15, 1880.]

[Footnote 19: _Item_, October 21, 1880.]

[Footnote 20: _Item_, November 1, 1880. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 21: _Item_, January 17, 1881. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 22: _Item_ March 21. 1881.]

[Footnote 23: _Item_, April 5, 1881. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 24: _Item_, April 21, 1881. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 25: _Item_, June 8, 1881. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 26: _Item_, June 14, 1881.]

[Footnote 27: _Item_ July 1, 1881. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 28: _Item_, July 21, 1881. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 29: _Item_, August 18, 1881.]

[Footnote 30: _Item_ October 12, 1881.]

[Footnote 31: _Times-Democrat_, May 2, 1882.]

[Footnote 32: _Times-Democrat_, May 7, 1882.]

[Footnote 33: _Times-Democrat_, May 21, 1882. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 34: _Times-Democrat_, June 25, 1882. Hearn's own title.]

[Footnote 35: _Vide Chips from a German Workshop._]

[Footnote 36: _Times-Democrat_, April 6, 1884. Hearn's own title. Signed. Almost identical with the _Item_ "Fantastic" of October 21, 1879.]

[Footnote 37: _Times-Democrat_, October 19, 1884. Hearn's own tide. Signed.]

END OF VOLUME II